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This thread is about my favorites and the roms which I think are pretty good. Of course EVERY rom is good because EVERY rom was developed with love and time; they are all just developed with a different kind of love. So always show respect when it comes down to rating some roms.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT DOWN BELOW BECAUSE I AM HIGHLY INTERESTED IN YOUR FEEDBACK! (Leaving a comment also helps starting a conversation and sharing thoughts on the rom collection, the roms themself, etc....) Questions are very welcome!

But before you start reading just keep in mind that the ShinTo kernel is definitely a kernel to consider when you are running a sammy based rom!

A very common rom with great mods and even its own kernel! There come many apps preinstalled that provide you the best tweaks for android/note3! There is even a download center by omega where the most important files for your note 3 are all together in one place. Easy to find and very easy to use! The download center provides kernels, apps and even bootanimations directly out of omegas hand without any linking or so.

Cons:

The kernel by omega is (form my point of view) not very well programmed. Its worse than the stock kernel and it eats up your battery pretty quick! But you have the option to choose the stock kernel during installation process.

Sometimes its hard to find the right app to customize your device. Its not difficult but it takes time and that makes it a con.

Lots of features/mods and a great app which combines all of them into one spot. Many mods apply on the fly; meaning you don't have to reboot your phone for the features to take effect. The X-NOTE Rom provides a big starter kit without any unnecessary app. There is nothing you can't do with this rom.

Cons:

Because everything in this rom is useful, most of the features have to run in the background and that drains the battery. I noticed that, compared to stock rom, the X-Note rom needed around 30min less to eat up my battery.

The X-Note Rom offers along with Jackaway one of the best and the most customizations available on the internet for the Note 3. I suggest to use Greenify to freeze all processes and apps you don't need. You can still use them but Greenify makes sure they don't run in the background to save battery. Brought me that ~30min back! Enjoy the flashing process and it's result.
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There are none if you are ok with the bloaty samsung applications that will never be running smooth and the fact that screen mirroring, hotspot/tethering and the abstract unlock effect doesn't work.

Summing up this definitely is a very good rom with good battery life and an awesome look&style IF you like Note 4's design and style. So, similar to the s5 roms, this a simple yes or no - Note 4 style or rather not! But if you decide to install this rom and like the N4's style you won't regret.

Galaxy S5 Rom ports: Note: I combined two Galaxy S5 stock rom ports in this rom description because there only small differences important for users between those two. Everything thats different between the two roms will be written italic + underlined!

Pros:

This rom is simply a Galaxy S5 on a Note 3 You get the UI and all the apps that usually come with the stock Galaxy S5 rom. You get a great S5 experience while still having the S-Pen.

Both ports are featuring a great battery life, overall performance and gaming experience

Both roms come with many customization apps preinstalled.(The "Tweaked s5 base" rom has a bit more root and xposed apps installed but there is no mod that can't be done on the "Galaxy S5 rom port final 40.0" rom. You may need to download some additional xposed modules though.)

There are additional flashable zips available over the xda thread for the "Galaxy S5 stock rom port final 40.0" rom. It's pretty useful!

There is a Note 4 features version of the "Tweaked S5 base" rom available on its xda thread.

Cons:

did not notice any bad issues/bugs with those two roms

You will love this rom if you like the user-interface of the Galaxy S5.
If not you'd better leave the rom where it is – on the server.I consider both rom ports as very good because neither the "Tweaked S5 base" rom or the "Galaxy S5 rom port final 40.0" rom have the common touchwiz issues. There is no quickly drainig battery, no overheating out of the blue, no lags, FC's, etc...There is no real difference between those two roms at all so you won't have a bad rom on your note 3 if you choose on of these two awesome roms. Congratulations to the devs!!!!!! VERY WELL DONE!!!!! KEEP UP THAT GOOD WORK!!

This rom seems to be a pretty good allrounder... It offers great themes and lots of customization while being slim and not to overloaded. You can have S5's UI and apps if you want. So this rom seems to have something for everyone!This rom only supports the SM-N900 device!Downloads&xda:TR-ROM-V20: http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=1575#downloads

You can choose between 2 versions the first one comes with everything you can imagie while the second one is slim so you only get what you really need.

The battery life with the "normal" version is pretty good but on the slim version it is even better!!!

You get a good FAQ and workaround section in case you have problems.

You get additional modding zips and back-to-stock-zips right there in that thread so you've got everything you need

Cons:

All these options mights confuse you and mess up your phone... NOT

This rom does not have a bad battery life anymore!!
V40 (the version I tested) gives you a decent rom with decent battery life and awesome performance. All those who kind of hate the samsung apps and services but still want to have Multiwindow by Samsung can try the slim version since most of the not necessarily needed apps (mostly system apps) are removed!!
This rom is now a very good stock based rom! (unlike it was before!)

Good batterylife and performance with the right kernel (for example the C-Rom kernel)!

Cons:

The preinstalled Cyanogenmod Kernel is, especially in the nightly and M- versions, very good in draining your battery even quicker than the last time.

Gets suddenly hot. Sudden reboots (Nightly + M-releases only)

You have to have this rom installed at least once in yourn life! This rom is nearly always the right decision and it offers a great alternative for the bloaty stock rom.
As many of you may know this rom is also a very common base for other roms. Thats why it's somehow the father to AOSP roms so you have to check it out at least once.
Be careful with the nightly releases though!Link to downlaod page:Download Center (hlte, the internation variant, is pre-chosen):https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=hlte

Note: This rom is also available for other Note 3 variants. Just take a quick look at the internet + the download center!

ENJOY!!!

C-Rom (AOSP):

Pros:

Only AOSP rom (my opinion) with great performance + battery life.

All mods implemented in one app which is implemented in the settings itself.

As far as i’m concerned this is the rom offering best&most customizing in the AOSP section.

Cons:

Without any third party apps installed – just system + Gapps.

The high amount of customization is sometimes quite confusing, especially if you’re no Android geek

Looks like this rom won't be supported in the future.

Overall tis is a great rom with lots of features+customizing + where confusing seems tob e the point of this hole rom Seriously, this is a great rom which has now become my new favouriteand it is still but you need to keep in mid that you might end up outdated with this rom. But unlike many other people I did NOT experience any bugs/battery problems/overheating issues! Try it out and see yourself what amazing work has been done here.

Reasonable battery life if you have in mind that this is a very early beta.

Good xda thread which really helps when having problems and or needing instructions!

Cons:

sometimes the battery percentage is dropping very quickly (respectively to the normal drop-rate)

I needed to play around with trickster mod a little bit to get the best battery life & performance out of my note 3

Sometimes not going into deepsleep due to the touch-sensitive buttons.

Around once every two days the device doesn't wake up anymore... -> reboot needed.

The key feature of this rom is not only the fact that it is Lollipop based... This is also a pretty decent AOSP rom which can already compete with the kitkat versions of other AOSP roms for the Note 3 in terms of stability, battery life, performance and partly modding. The only thing you may miss is Xposed framework but that simply doesn't support Lollipop yet (-> not developers fault). The battery life and performance are OK. They only get good if tweak a little bit here and there. If you are interested I can post a guide here.

Summing up this is a great Lollipop based rom which has unlike the temasek rom not the annoying unlocking and deepsleep bug for example. And except the little heat problem (which is from my point of view also existing on the AOSP kitkat roms) there is nothing else that keeps you from using this rom as a daily driver like any other Kitkat based rom.
I find the short time needed to reach such a high state of perfection the most amazing part here! You should check this out! DEFINITELY!Download(s) and XDA:http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-cmremix-rom-lollipop-v1-0-t2959244

I've just completed the test of C-Rom for note 3 and to be honest I noticed it just a week ago...well sorry for that.
I'm just doing my final edits and you'll be able to read it in this perfect thread pretty pretty soon. I mean like tomorrow or this evening.
Pls leave your thoughts and maybe also roms YOU miss! If you like this thread pls consider hitting that like button

SlimKat-during my use of SlimKat i enjoyed it. Opened my eyes to its slim recents and by far my fave feature from them. Tons of customization as well with various builds from other devs. But during my time of use it suffered from memleak as they call it.

C-ROM Kang-not the stock C-ROM this one was Sabermodded. Had tons i mean tons of customization in its hood. Some may even find it overwhelming. But i had bit of issue, a huge bug rendered it useless for me.

Dirty Unicorn-customization yah sure tons of it, didn't really last long on this one. Too many unicorns for me. Suffered from slow UI on there customization area.

Temasek CM11-my current ROM. Customization is lacking. for those who want to have tons of it this aint for them. Pretty simple basic stable CM1Q ROM with Slim and Omni features.

Note: you could do a second post here listing AOSP based ROMs then have the 1st post as your Touchwiz based ROM. If you need help with AOSP base i can probably give you more than what i just wrote. It's just a summary of my experience.

Thanks for reply! i installed teamasek too but then decided to switch back to stock because the min freq always changed too 1100 mhz. That drained my battery so quick that my Note 3's battery life could've be compared to an IPhone's battery life!

Unfortunately it seems the devs for C-ROM have bailed. There have been no updates for months, or even replies to requests or comments.
I've been having two problems with it that are also apparent (but worse) in CM11 M8. The screen stays black after phone calls and you can't hang up or get control of the phone back, and GPS is AWOL for quite long times, particularly in new areas. Really hamstrings your Ingress play!

Someone is feeling colourful... Great, I'll consider this thread when updates for the Note 3 stop. I don't want to root my Note 3 because there is an apparent rumour (from PhoneArena) that when user's tamper with the phone's system, they might be able to receive official updates #Gasp

Someone is feeling colourful... Great, I'll consider this thread when updates for the Note 3 stop. I don't want to root my Note 3 because there is an apparent rumour (from PhoneArena) that when user's tamper with the phone's system, they might be able to receive official updates #Gasp

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But the usage scenario you described isn't the only one...reading and using this thread doesn't have to result in a custom rom on your note 3. You maybe just want to be informed WITHOUT testing the roms yourself to do an educated decision, then you notice that none of the roms covers your interests and finally you decide to stay with one custom rom or the stock rom.

sry for that... i simply forgot to link will be updated pretty pretty soon!!!
Thanks for telling!
update: link should be available now!
For all those who might ask themselves: Well, is the C-Rom still a good rom which can be used as a daily driver?
The C-Rom is still a very good AOSP rom.... just update/change the kernel!! (Good AOSP kernels are listed in the Kernel center available here: http://www.androidauthority.com/com...ered-personal-experiece-and-comparison.16538/

Hi l am new to this forum so not sure if this is the right place....your list of roms very informative thank you....l have tried lots of roms and currenty have the latest TWRP recovery which works really well. Some roms recommend CWM however when l try to install it it really messies up my phone..boot loops into recovery continually....may l ask which recovery you use/prefer ??

Hi l am new to this forum so not sure if this is the right place....your list of roms very informative thank you....l have tried lots of roms and currenty have the latest TWRP recovery which works really well. Some roms recommend CWM however when l try to install it it really messies up my phone..boot loops into recovery continually....may l ask which recovery you use/prefer ??

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Ofcourse! I personally prefer TWRP and I haven't experienced such problems
The main reasons for me to use TWRP recovery are the selective backup and the user friendly interface. Another great thing is the lock mode which turn off your screen and locks your device until u unlock.